Graduation Card Featuring Taylored Expressions Argyle Stamp, Stencil and Dies

Of course, 'tis the season for graduations.  My kids are now out of college and so the number of kids I know is dwindling, but there are a few of these young people that I get the pleasure of celebrating.  This card was made for a friend's son who graduated from the same high school as my kids.  A high school themed color scheme seemed perfect and using the Taylored Expressions Argyle Stamp, Stencil and Dies was a great combination.  The sentiment is a combination of Papertrey Ink Congratulations mini-stamp and die and The Greetery Alphabuds dies.  

Simple and effective!

Congratulations to the grad and Happy Fourth of July!

Leftovers From This Week's Better Together Card Making Challenge

I had mentioned earlier this week that I had some extra backgrounds from my Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge trials.  I watercolored these backgrounds and then added to them with a mixture of Art Anthology Dimensional Medium in gold, white acrylic paint, spray stains and stencils.  Some of these effects are very faint, but they are there.  The color scheme's came from the challenge Brandy made to me and so the colors are bright and cheery.  The challenge theme was Whimsical Nature.
  

The floral and greenery is stamped on Bristol cardstock and colored with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers using my three sets of Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers, More Spring Flowers and Even More Spring Flowers stamps and dies.  The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink Congratulations mini-stamp and die set.  They work perfectly with the colorful parts of the background.

This last card is my favorite.  I really love the color green and the offset from the green leaves with the blue makes my heart sing.

I'm so glad Brandy inspires me to step out of my comfort zone.  If these don't exactly match the theme, they are a close fit and I really had fun making these cards and those from the challenge.

I'm entering these into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Flower Power.

A Masculine Graduation Card

I needed one more, much delayed, graduation card for a family friend's kid who graduated college.  Since it was a quick turn, I used some patterned paper to create this card and get it straight in the mail.  The sentiment is die cut using my Papertrey Ink Congratulations mini-stamp and die  which I die cut three times to create the dimension on this card.  Simple, but it works and I was able to send off my best wishes toot sweet before the summer was over.

Graduation Cards

I decided to use up some of the patterned paper in the stash and make these graduation cards inspired by my alma mater spirit colors.  This was a simple design using my Papertrey Ink Congratulations mini-stamp set and die to cut out the congratulations, a very old Quickkuts 2019 die cuts and using some Crystal Accents to make them all shiny.

I prefer the card with the triangle portion, but both turned out to be fantastic.